Creativity – A New Vocabulary

by Glaveanu, Vlad Petre; Tanggaard, Lene; Wegener, Charlotte

• ISBN13: 9781137511799
• ISBN10: 1137511796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-01-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Creativity — A New Vocabulary proposes a novel approach to the way in which we talk and think about creativity. It covers a variety of topics not commonly associated with creativity that offer us valuable insights and open up new and exciting possibilities for creative action. This collection of essays challenges the 'traditional' vocabulary of creativity and its preference for individuals, brains, cognition, personality, divergent thinking, insight, and problem solving. Instead, the book proposes a more dynamic and relational perspective that considers creativity as an embodied, social, material, and cultural process. This book will be useful for a wide range of specialists within the humanities and social sciences, as well as practitioners from applied fields who are looking for novel ways, of thinking about and doing creative work.

Author Biography

Vlad Petre Glaveanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark, and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Université Paris Descartes, France, and the Department of Psychology and Education, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Recent books include: Distributed Creativity and Rethinking Creativity (co-edited with Alex Gillespie and Jaan Valsiner).

Lene Tanggaard is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark, where she serves as director of the QS-research group and co-director of the Center for Qualitative Studies. Recent books include: Twice the Fun – A Survival Kit for Doctoral Students and their Supervisors (with C. Wegener) and Fooling Around: Creative Learning Pathways.

Charlotte Wegener is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Recent articles include: 'Would You Like a Cup of Coffee?' Using the Researcher's Insider and Outsider Positions as a Sensitizing Concept and Writing with Phineas. How a Fictional Character from A. S. Byatt Helped Me Turn my Ethnographic Data into a Research Text.

Table of Contents

The Importance of Being a Vocabulary; Jaan Valsiner
1. Why Do We Need a New Vocabulary for Creativity?; Vlad Petre Glaveanu, Lene Tanggaard and Charlotte Wegener
2. Affordance; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
3. Business as Usual; Kristian Dahl and Lene Tanggaard
4. Craft; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
5. Difference; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
6. Fear; Luca Tateo
7. Language; Carolin Demuth and Vlad Petre Glaveanu
8. Lostness; Charlotte Wegener
9. Memory; Brady Wagoner and Vlad Petre Glaveanu
10. Mess; Lene Tanggard and Tue Juelsbo
11. Mirroring; Charlotte Wegener
12.Pathways; Lene Tanggard
13. Perspective; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
14. Power; Claus Elmholdt and Marten Fogsgaard
15. Reflexivity; Constance de Saint-Laurent and Vlad Petre Glaveanu
16. Rhythm; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
17. Rules; Tues Juelsbo
18. Space; Nikita A. Kharlamov
19. Stumbling; Lene Tanggaard
20 Things; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
21 Translation; Vlad Petre Glaveanu
22. Upcycling; Charlotte Wegener